Chickasaw County, Iowa (RI) — The woman who yelled, “People will die,” recently as U.S. Senator Joni Ernst answered a question about Medicaid funding cuts is now herself running for a seat in the Iowa House of Representatives.
India May is the director of the Ionia Public Library, a registered nurse, and a death investigator for Chickasaw County. May says her intention is to run as a progressive Democrat for Iowa House District 58, to undo the damage caused by the incumbent, Charley Thomson. In a Facebook post, May says she attended Ernst’s town hall at Aplington-Parkersburg High School, when she was quote “overwhelmed by the repeated lies and dismissals of the real concerns about food insecurity and losing healthcare,” unquote, and she yelled, “People will die!”
Ernst responded to May’s shout by saying: ‘We all are going to die.”
Last Saturday, Ernst said she was in the process of answering a question from another member of the audience when an extremely distraught woman in the back of the auditorium screamed. Ernst later told CBS News she is very compassionate, and people need to listen to the entire conversation she had with the audience in Parkersburg.
Senator Joni Ernst (KIWA Staff Photo)
